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Kitsch

Art history; General art history

Kitsch is the German word for trash. Sometime in the 1920s it came into use in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial culture. In 1939, the ...

Kunsthalle

Art history; General art history

A German term for a public art space that mounts temporary exhibitions. In Germany they are often supported by the local Kunstverein, or art association. It has come to be used internationally as ...

Referring to the thought of the prominent French psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan, who postulated a distinction between experience that is 'imaginary'—associated with the 'gaze' of an active ...

Land art

Art history; General art history

Also known as Earth art. It can be seen as part of the wider Conceptual art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Land artists began working directly in the landscape, sculpting it into earthworks or ...

Landscape

Art history; General art history

One of the principal types or genres of Western art. However, the appreciation of nature for its own sake and its choice as a specific subject for art is a relatively recent phenomenon. Until the ...

Lettrisme

Art history; General art history

Founded by the Romanian-born artist Isidore Isou in the mid 1940s, this French avant-garde movement was associated with the Situationist branch of the Anarchist family and became the art that ...

Merz

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Nonsense word invented by the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works based on scavenged scrap materials. He made large numbers of small collages, and more ...